Tumbler switch



G; A. WHLSTRM TUMBLER SWITCH' Filed NOV. l2, 1946 i nl Il." iwis.

July 19, 1949.

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Patented July 19,1949 9 Y "mino "STATES Meur orsi-,CE

TUMBLER SWITCH Gustaf Adolf Whlstrm, Fagerviksvagen, Sweden, assignor to Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, a company of Sweden Application November 12, 1946, Serial No. 709,387 In Sweden November 21, 1945 1 Claim. (Cl. 20G-68) 1 2 The present invention relates to a tumbler the rollers 21 are pressed by the spring 34 against switch with a lever handle which, when moving, the wiper arm 22.

actuates a wiper arm operated by spring pressure. Figs. 2 and 5 show the wiper arm 22 in position The object of the invention is to produce a tumto close contacts 23, 25, and the cradle I5 rocked bier switch with great electrical breaking capac- 5 to the right. The rollers 2l then press on the left ity, small dimensions and simple construction. end of the arm 22. If the lever handle II is now According to the invention, this is achieved. A moved from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the cradle is rockably mounted in the bottom of the position shown in Fig. 3, the cradle I5 will be switch by means of knife edges and has in its rocked to the left. Thereby, the arm 22 is moved upper part a pivot pin on which the wiper arm to the breaking position 23, 26 shown in Fig. 3. is mounted, and having on its upper edge recesses The rollers 21, by reason of the movement of the into which the lower part of the lever handle is arm 22, are now on the right side of the pivot received. By displacement, the lever handle pin 2|, the arm 22 therefore having a downward causes the cradle to rock and the wiper arm is torque at the contact point. This causes the concaused to open and close the contacts in a way tact suddenly to break and the different parts in known per se. the switch to take the position shown in Figs. 4

The invention will be described more closely and 1. Said break is effected very rapidly and with reference to the accompanying drawing. surely. On the lever handle I I being moved from Fie. 1 is a cross-section oi the switch taken perthe position shown in Fig. 4 to the position shown. pendicularly to the direction of movement of the in Fig. 2, the rollers 27 will be positioned, by lever handle. Figs. 2-4 are sections in the direcreason of the movement of the arm 22, on the tion oi movement of the lever handle and show left side of the pivot pin 2l, the wiper arm 22 the switch in different positions, Fig. 4 showing then taking the position shown in Fig. 2.

the same position as Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail, r The construction described above, in which the showing a front view oi the wiper arm and the 3J cradle is pivoted in the bottom of the switch, fixed contacts in the position shown in Fig. 2. allows the switch to be made low, which is espe- The lever handle i I, Figs. 1-4, has at its lower cially advantageous for assembling and also conpart two Shanks I2, which are mounted on a tributes to a pleasing appearance. pintle le iixedin the frame I3 of the switch. Said I claim: shanks l2 co-operate with two parts of a. cradle 30 In an electric switch, the combination of a casi, which by means of knife edges It, is rockabliT ing having a. pair of side walls and a bottom promounted in the porcelain base il forming the vided with a groove having plane sides angularly bottom of the switch. The cradle I5 is so mounted disposed; a cradle comprising a pair of relatively that the shanks I2 of the lever handle, which spaced plates and a pivot pin connecting said extend into recesses in the upper part of the plates, each of said plates having on its lower edge cradle, by displacement rock the cradle. Close a depending foot having a knife edge received in below said recesses there is mounted in the cradle the bottom of said groove, to support said cradle i5 a pivot pin 2l, on which a bifurcated wiper rockably on said bottom, and on its upper edge a arm 22 is mounted. Said arm 22 is provided at recess providing relatively spaced shoulders; a its ends with contact points 23, which coi-operate pintle mounted in said walls parallel with the with fixed relatively spaced contact plates, each bottom of said groove, said pintle and said bottom y having a plane end portion 25 and a breaking being in the same vertical plane; a manually portion 2S formed as a protuberance. actuated lever pivoted on said pintle and having The wiper arm 22 is actuated by two rollers 2l an upper portion projecting outwardly of said mounted on a pivot pin fixed in a frame 2 3, which 45 casing and a pair of depending lingers projecting siides in grooves 3l in the base Il. The frame into said recesses, respectively, and co-acting with supports a biiurcated post 33 loosely embracsaid shoulders to rock said cradle; a bifurcated ing the pintle I4 and around which there is a coil contact lever rockably pivoted on said pin; a pair spring 34, which is conned between said pintle of contact plates so mounted on said walls, re- I'i and a ange on the frame 28. Consequently, 50 spectively, that said contact lever is brought into and out of contact with said plates when rocked;

a frame slidably mounted in said casing; a pair of rollers depending from said frame above the sides of said Contact lever, respectively; a bifurcated post on said frame loosely embracing said. pintle; and a coil spring conned between said pintle and said frame and biasing said rollers against said Contact lever to rock said lever when said cradle is rocked. u

GUSTAF ADOLF WHLSTROM.

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